Events on Thursday, March 18
Thursday 3/18 @ A + D Museum
Architizer wants you and your social media prowess. Aiming to be the database for contemporary architecture on the web, and building...
Thursday 3/18 @ Royal/T
Store, gallery, and cosplay-themed café in Culver City, Royal/T turns ad hoc accordion venue, hosting New York-based Guy Klucevsek for a...
Thursday 3/18 @ Frank Lloyd Gallery
Larry Bell is living proof that it's never too late to expand your horizons. A pillar of the Southern California art...
See What I'm Saying: The Deaf Entertainers Documentary
Thursday 3/18 @ Egyptian Theatre
World Premiere SEE WHAT I'M SAYING: THE DEAF ENTERTAINERS DOCUMENTARY, 2010, Worldplay, 90 min. Director Hilari Scarl captures with humor and...
David Corbett: Do They Know I'm Running?
Thursday 3/18 @ Book Soup
David Corbett presents and signs Do They Know I'm Running? "A scintillating, politically fuelled mystery that grabs you by...
Thursday 3/18 @ The Cinefamily
VIEW CLIP "In an age where most docs are grafted over by pop narratives for greater suspense, drama or momentum, 45365...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 3/18 @ LAXART
Kamrooz Aram and Artemio engage in an unhinging of the standard mechanisms of image-making, challenging social norms in the process. Artemio's...
How Many Billboards? Art in Stead
Thursday 3/18 @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture
In New York, street art is tagged on the sides of buildings and pasted on empty storefronts. In Los Angeles, a...
Thursday 3/18 @ Coast Playhouse
A "bone"-ified smash. With "organ" accompaniment. Now that that's out of the way, yes, Puppetry of the Penis is exactly what...
Thursday 3/18 @ Edward Cella Art + Architecture
At a time when the country of Chile is foremost in the world's thoughts for tragic reasons, Mary Heebner's long-planned exhibition...
Migrations of the Mind: Manuscripts from the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection
Thursday 3/18 @ The Getty Museum
Through Spring, the Getty gets medieval with an exhibition of illustrated manuscripts culling ancient Christian, Muslim, and Eastern wisdom from past...
Nick Cave: Meet Me at the Center of the Earth
Thursday 3/18 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
Nick Cave — no, not that Nick Cave — is a Chicago-based artist who crafts wearable sculptures from woven hair, found...
Thursday 3/18 @ Khastoo Gallery
Khastoo goes from art gallery to temporary pop-up shop, teaming up with Stor and Quentin Smith's Smithshop to sell not just...
Thursday 3/18 @ Arclight Sherman Oaks
Known primarily for its iconic outdoor amphitheatre and legendary musical acts, the Hollywood Bowl is offering fans a glimpse into the...
Thursday 3/18 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
Photographer, painter, installation artist, and skate legend Ed Templeton is a natural documentarian, first coming to the art world's attention with...
Thursday 3/18 @ SolwayJones Gallery
In this dual-venue mini-retrospective of works mainly from the mid-'70s and early '80s, SolwayJones and Kunsthalle L.A. set up an intriguing...
The Ulysses Guide to the Los Angeles River
Thursday 3/18 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
The Los Angeles River has been having a comeback, if you can argue that it was ever popular to begin with....
Thursday 3/18 @ Royal/T
It might be tempting to envision a romper room when you hear a maid café is hosting an exhibit with the...
Thursday 3/18 @ Track 16 Gallery
Courtesy of the freshly re-opened Track 16 Gallery and curated by Elizabeta Betinski of the recently closed and much-missed Overtones Gallery,...
Thursday 3/18 @ Downtown Center East/West Gallery
Michael Salerno has been a pillar of the artistic community of writers and painters that has made Downtown LA the epicenter...
Thursday 3/18 @ Various Los Angeles theaters
A compelling polemic by Philly-based Don Argott, The Art of the Steal looks at the bitter, decades-long fight over the Barnes...
Thursday 3/18 @ The Fountain Theatre
In a modern-day California gothic tale worthy of something by Raymond Chandler, John Fante, Charles Bukowski, or James Ellroy, the longtime...
Thursday 3/18 @ Affinity Galleries
Affinity Galleries, previously known as the Circus Gallery, presents an innovative group show that effectively redefines the term "multimedia." Exhibiting photography,...
Divine Demons: Wrathful Deities of Buddhist Art
Thursday 3/18 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
Severed heads, skulls and daggers brimming with blood, and cemeteries littered with dismembered corpses may not readily invoke visions of spiritual...
Star Quality: The World of Noël Coward
Thursday 3/18 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Known most famously for his reign as one of theater's greatest playwrights, British-born Noël Coward wore many other hats: singer, actor,...
Art Against Empire: Graphic Responses to U.S. Interventions Since W.W.II
Thursday 3/18 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
Art Against Empire, culled from the extensive holdings of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, offers over 100 selected...
Thursday 3/18 @ Michael Benevento Los Angeles
Updegraff's debut exhibition with Michael Benevento is an elegant evolution of the artist's exploration of the power-play between subject and author,...
Thursday 3/18 @ Crewest Gallery
The Cool 5, better known as TC-5, were responsible for the graffiti, fashion, and all-around scene-making that made the NYC outdoor...
Michael Jackson: A Musical Legacy
Thursday 3/18 @ GRAMMY Museum at LA Live
The recently opened GRAMMY Museum at Downtown's mammoth entertainment complex LA Live offers visitors a rare, intimate glimpse into the life...
Thursday 3/18 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
Where London has the Victoria and Albert, LA has the Craft and Folk Art Museum; yet, too often, the little institution...
Portraiture for the Silicon Enlightenment
Thursday 3/18 @ Kinkead Contemporary
Curated by Angela Dufresne, the Fuckheads group show features artists who challenge traditional ways of seeing, moving away from portraiture aligned...
Breach of Peace: Photographs of Freedom Riders by Eric Etheridge
Thursday 3/18 @ Skirball Cultural Center
The subject of an engaging exhibition and lavishly appended new book, Eric Etheridge's contemporary photographic portraits of this group of American...
Thursday 3/18 @ American Jewish University
Each of the artists in the three-person show, Body and Soul, carries an impressive list of achievements. Featuring work by Kathryn...
Thursday 3/18 @ Armory Center for the Arts
From 1966-2001, legendary artist Robert Rauschenberg partnered with the impressive printmakers at LA's Gemini G.E.L. to produce an astonishing 250-plus groundbreaking...
Thursday 3/18 @ Jancar Gallery
Los Angeles artist Mery Lynn McCorkle exhibits new mixed-media works combining rich, saturated colors with visceral, almost topographic textures, distressed surfaces,...
Thursday 3/18 @ The Continental Gallery
Between their individual projects and their extensive collaborative undertakings, the six artists in Focus Daily operate in photography, painting, fashion, video,...
Thursday 3/18 @ Mr. Musichead Gallery
For over 30 years, music-industry photography vet Jay Blakesberg has made a career of shooting tripped-out rock icons such as Jerry...
Thursday 3/18 @ Jeanie Madsen Gallery
A 79-year old society hairdresser, New York photographer Victor Friedman has been moonlighting as a photojournalist for 45 years. Now, he...
The More the Merrier: Posters from the Ten Best Picture Nominees, 1936–1943
Thursday 3/18 @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Does having more Best Picture nominations affect the quality of films made? Maybe not. But then again, the last time 10...
Thursday 3/18 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Sumi Ink Club represents a new ethos in the art world, one that builds on the playful spirit of artists like...
Thursday 3/18 @ DNJ Gallery
The often-haunting nightscapes of Night Lights reveal how city environments can become both isolating and poetic with the absence of daylight....
Thursday 3/18 @ Charlie James Gallery
Travis Somerville is one of the west coast's fastest-rising art stars, first coming to national attention as the winner of the...
Thursday 3/18 @ Art Center College of Design
Rightfully entitled DreamWorlds, this short exhibition at the Williamson Gallery features the work of the Dreamworks animation artists that help bring...
Thursday 3/18 @ Skirball Cultural Center
Imagine yourself immersed in a favorite childhood tale. Five years in the making and occupying an 8,000-square-foot gallery, Noah's Ark at...
Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres
Thursday 3/18 @ Norton Simon Museum of Art
In conjunction with the installation of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres's stunning Comtesse d’Haussonville, 1845, on loan from The Frick Collection in New...
Thursday 3/18 @ Egyptian Theatre
Critic's Buzz Special Screenings: RED RIDING: 1974, 2009, IFC Films, 105 min. Dir. Julian Jarrold. Inspired by the novels of David...
Molten Color: Glassmaking in Antiquity
Thursday 3/18 @ The Getty Museum
Over 180 ancient glass objects from the collection of Erwin Oppenländer are featured in this exhibition. The Oppenländer collection, which the Getty...
Thursday 3/18 @ Cinespace
The party Thursday evening is at Cinespace. See why everyone in Hollywood is talking about our new Thursdays. Ladies free before...
Thursday 3/18 @ Cinespace
Gravity Works is a professional caberet/vaudeville/comedy troupe created by producer/director Russell Boast out of a desire to create a unique performance...
Thursday 3/18 @ Art Center College of Design
Illustration students from Art Center College of Design currently have their work on display at the Aquarium of the Pacific in...
Thursday 3/18 @ Walt Disney Concert Hall
Exciting young British conductor Robin Ticciati, who counts Simon Rattle and Colin Davis as mentors, takes over...
